Postconventional

Kohlberg found that we all move through three major stages of moral development, the last being what he calls the "postconventional stage," where one moves away from "an orientation toward authority, fixed rules, and the maintenance of social order" that characterize the prior stage, to a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of rules and the possibility of altering these by "appealing to logical comprehensiveness, universality and consistency." ❋ Unknown (2006)

We might notice that for each of these milestones or stages to be reached—whether genital, or concrete operational, or postconventional—the soul of the child must grow muscle, nerve cells, axons, dendrites, all using electrochemical neurotransmission. ❋ Michael Gurian (2002)

Nonetheless, traditionally, in order to demonstrate your sincerity, you must complete a good number of preliminary practices, including a mastery of various states of meditative consciousness, summating in a stable post-postconventional adaptation, all of which is well and good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to Kohlberg (1969), many adolescents fail to reach the later postconventional stages of moral development. ❋ Paul Rosenberg (2009)